Archaeology and History
Recent Submissions
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Where power lies - The archaeology of transforming elite centres in the landscape of Medieval England c.AD 800-1200
(Medieval Settlement Research Group, 25 November 2024)‘Where Power Lies: The Archaeology of Transforming Elite Centres in the Landscape of Medieval England c. AD 800-1200’ was a joint project between Newcastle University, the University of Exeter and the Portable Antiquities ... -
Where power lies: Lordly power centres in the English landscape c. 800–1200
(Cambridge University Press, 9 January 2025)Toward the end of the first millennium AD, a burgeoning class of secular elites emerged throughout western Europe who developed local power centres to denote their prestige. Seigneurial investment was prioritised towards ... -
Charting authority after Empire: Documentary culture and political legitimacy in post-Carolingian Europe
(Cambridge University Press, 2025)Imperial legacies are very much ‘in’. One cannot walk into a bookshop without being confronted by multiple titles on the subject. And in an age of culture wars, they regularly grace the pages of our broadsheets, often ... -
The children of Hambledon Hill: Tracing grief and community through osteological investigation of articulated human remains at Neolithic causewayed enclosures
(Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1 December 2024)Amidst the diversity of funerary practices seen in the British Neolithic, articulated burial stands out as unusual. As such, their analysis offers a rare insight into the lives and deaths of individuals. This article ... -
Rehabilitation of an eighteenth-century roué
(Liverpool University Press, 2025)The parish church of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, is famous chiefly for its medieval monuments to the Cockayne family and for Thomas Banks’s effigy of Penelope Boothby. It also boasts, however, a wall tablet by Sir Richard ...